Ashley Judd visits with Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh as the Times Up supporter advocates for victims of ethnic violence and sexual trauma

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Ashley Judd is an outspoken supporter of the Times Up movement.

But her advocacy on behalf of abused women extends far beyond Hollywood.

The actress, 49, is currently in Bangladesh where she is meeting with girls and women from the Rohingya community who fled their homes in Myanmar due to ethnic persecution.

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For a cause: Ashley Judd is currently in Bangladesh where she is meeting with girls and women from the Rohingya community who fled their homes in Myanmar due to ethnic persecution

For a cause: Ashley Judd is currently in Bangladesh where she is meeting with girls and women from the Rohingya community who fled their homes in Myanmar due to ethnic persecution

Ashley is serving as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNFPA, the United Nations reproductive health and rights agency.

Her focus is in promoting the need to help pregnant women and those who have recently given birth in these refugee enclaves.

On Thursday, she paid a visit to a UNFPA-supported Primary Healthcare Centre before moving on to another center where mothers-to-be get antenatal check ups.

Women's issues: The actress, 49, is serving as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNFPA, the United Nations reproductive health and rights agency

Women's issues: The actress, 49, is serving as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNFPA, the United Nations reproductive health and rights agency

Trying to make a difference: Ashley Judd is an outspoken supporter of the Times Up movement. But her advocacy on behalf of abused women extends far beyond Hollywood

Trying to make a difference: Ashley Judd is an outspoken supporter of the Times Up movement. But her advocacy on behalf of abused women extends far beyond Hollywood

Ethnic cleansing victims: Many of the women and girls have witnessed the killing of loved ones and suffered sexual violence

Ethnic cleansing victims: Many of the women and girls have witnessed the killing of loved ones and suffered sexual violence

Many of these women have been traumatized by sexual and sectarian violence and some have lost children and seen loved ones massacred, according to the UNFPA.

United Nations Population Fund estimates that more than 688,000 refugees have fled to Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh over the past six months from neighboring Rakhine State in Myanmar.

Of those, an estimated 170,000 of newly arrived women and girls are of reproductive age and about 60,000 of them are pregnant.

Lending her voice: On Thursday, she paid a visit to a UNFPA-supported Primary Healthcare Centre before moving on to another center where mothers-to-be get antenatal check ups

Lending her voice: On Thursday, she paid a visit to a UNFPA-supported Primary Healthcare Centre before moving on to another center where mothers-to-be get antenatal check ups

Committed humanitarian: Her focus is in promoting the need to help pregnant women and those who have recently given birth in these refugee enclaves

Committed humanitarian: Her focus is in promoting the need to help pregnant women and those who have recently given birth in these refugee enclaves

Ashley accused movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of alleged sexual assault in a October in a New York Times story, revealing the incident happened 20 years ago when she filmed the movie Kiss The Girls.

Since she spoke out, more than 50 women have revealed similar experiences with the former producer.

The star of Double Jeopardy and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood has also spoken about the cost to her professionally and financially of standing up to Weinstein and discrimination in Hollywood.  

'The hill on which I'm willing to die is equality, and if that means going to jail, being maligned, being defamed, having economic loss because I stood up to Harvey Weinstein - and it's incalculable the amount of money I could have made that I didn't - that's the hill on which I'm willing to die,' she said. 

At the forefront of a movement: Ashley was one of the first to accuse movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of alleged sexual assault in October in a New York Times story, revealing the incident happened 20 years ago when she filmed the movie Kiss The Girls

At the forefront of a movement: Ashley was one of the first to accuse movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of alleged sexual assault in October in a New York Times story, revealing the incident happened 20 years ago when she filmed the movie Kiss The Girls

    

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